Elevation of Hokitika, West Coast, New Zealand

Hokitika, West Coast, New Zealand is 7 m (23 ft) above sea level.

Hokitika's height from sea level is 7 metres, or 23 feet. GeoNames reads 6 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 2 m.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 87 m

Mean 19 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 87 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 12

among the towns of West Coast, and 256th of 279 in New Zealand.

Nearest town

23.5 km to the SW, at 35 m, 28 m higher.

Cross-section through Hokitika

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Hokitika; the vertical scale is the same on both.

138-11WE24.9 km
West to east: from 0 m at 12 km west to 48 m at 12 km east.
138-11NS24.9 km
North to south: from 0 m at 12 km north to 23 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 52 km around Hokitika, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 52 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Hokitika

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Ross 23.5 kmSW 35 m (115 ft) +28 m
Greymouth 35.8 kmNE 45 m (148 ft) +38 m

Peaks and passes near Hokitika

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Hokitika is

Latitude -42.7173686, longitude 170.9665427. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Hokitika elevation: 7 m (23 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Hokitika's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 6 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.